jcrd / python-pkgbuilder

A CLI tool and library to build pacman packages in chroots

python-pkgbuilder

python-pkgbuilder provides a library and command-line tool for building pacman packages and their dependencies in chroots.

Dependencies

• python
• pacman
• devtools

Setup

Two directories are expected to exist before python-pkgbuilder is run:

• /var/cache/pkgbuilder
• /var/lib/pkgbuilder

They should be writable by the user running python-pkgbuilder.

This can be achieved by:

• creating the pkgbuilder group
• setting group ownership of the above directories to pkgbuilder
• setting the mode of the above directories to 0775
• adding the user to the pkgbuilder group

Command-line client

Usage

usage: pkgbuilder [-h] [-C PACMAN_CONFIG] [-M MAKEPKG_CONFIG] [-b BUILDDIR]
                  [-c CHROOTDIR] [-d PKGBUILDS] [-i] [-I] [-r REPO] [-B] [-R]
                  [-a]
                  [name [name ...]]

positional arguments:
  name                  package name

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -C PACMAN_CONFIG, --pacman-config PACMAN_CONFIG
                        path to pacman config file
  -M MAKEPKG_CONFIG, --makepkg-config MAKEPKG_CONFIG
                        path to makepkg config file
  -b BUILDDIR, --builddir BUILDDIR
                        path to package build directory
  -c CHROOTDIR, --chrootdir CHROOTDIR
                        path to chroot directory
  -d PKGBUILDS, --pkgbuilds PKGBUILDS
                        path to directory of local PKGBUILDs
  -i, --install         install packages
  -I, --reinstall       reinstall packages
  -r REPO, --repo REPO  install package via local repo
  -B, --rebuild         build packages even if they exists (pass twice to
                        rebuild dependencies)
  -R, --remove          remove package build directories
  -a, --aur             search for packages in the AUR only

Python module

Simplest example:

from pkgbuilder.builder import Builder

b = Builder('aurutils')
b.build()
b.install()

See the API documentation for descriptions of all functions.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License (see LICENSE).

python-pkgbuilder's Issues

Parse PKGBUILDs for `provides`

Currently, only the directory name is used to satisfy local dependencies. The local PKGBUILD directory should be scanned and the pkgbuilds parsed (using python-srcinfo) to build a mapping of pkgbuilds to provided packages.